Re: [css-d] Replace horizontal search form table

David Pratt wrote: I am trying to get rid of a table at the top of a site layout that it 100% width. It is a quick search form and a table has been the only way I have found to contain everything horizontally so it does not appear severely skewed. I have tried in CSS but cannot seem to keep

[css-d] first post - floating a list beside images

Hello everybody! This is my first post, so hopefully I do it alright. Here is my question/problem: I'd like to make a menue with a simple list (ul), shown in three columns. Putting the list in a div, filling it with nine li and formatting it with something like ul {display: block; height:

Re: [css-d] First Post ;)

Hi Dwain and Omar Kilani, You wrote: http://www.dur.ac.uk/ITS/WWW/accessibility/guidelines/priority2/.forms.php this link is no longer good. dwain Try: http://www.dur.ac.uk/its/services/web/accessibility/guidelines/priority2/forms/ Instead. Thanks--I'll change my notes on that one.

[css-d] RE: Active area of div for hover on link - corrected (Tony Martin)

OK - so I spotted my stupid error. It didnt seem right when I tried to relate collapsing margins to a padding question. The fact is Padding does work on the a element - what was stopping it was poor speficity, my test page was importing a style sheet that had a:link and a:visited set to

Re: [css-d] Padding issues

Steve Ensure that you remove whatever amount of padding you added to the element from the elements width. For example: width:200px; padding:0; width:160px; padding:0 20px 0 20px; Steve Ivy wrote: Hi All, I'm having some weird padding issues:

Re: [css-d] Padding issues

Hi Steve, The culprit seems to be these lines, which set the width of your sidebar wider than your intended 216px and causes the protrusion: htmlbody #sidebar { width:227px; } Remove them and everything works as intended. Cheers. Mike Steve Ivy wrote: Hi All, I'm having some weird

Re: [css-d] Padding issues

Hi, Steve: Try floating the sidebar right and change the background position to bottom right. It worked for me in 3 different browsers. #sidebar { background-color:#DBEEFA; background-image: url(images/sidebar_background.jpg); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position:

Re: [css-d] Replace horizontal search form table

Hi Matthew. Many thanks for your reply. I figured it out. I increased the font size in the input area to 110% and styled the button to be a bit wider also now it is all pretty much uniform horizontally. Opera seems to have wider selector for pull downs. So now everything is in div and spans

[css-d] Problem with a CSS rollover implementation

This page: http://dev.facilityplanners.com/portfolio/ works fine in FF, but fails in IE6, why? I tried to use IE7, but that did not work. Here's the inline style: ul {list-style: none; } li {margin-bottom:5px;} a {text-decoration:none}

[css-d] IE border problems with dir=rtl

Hi all, This is a first post. I'm developing a web application that must support RTL languages (Hebrew and Arabic). I'm finding that Mozilla's support is fairly good, but IE falls apart in RTL mode (although both browsers become noticeably more fragile). There is very little practical

Re: [css-d] Do classes cascade?

Really? Do you know the browser support on that? Also, will the last one always be followed in case of a conflict? On 7/18/05, Chris Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can apply multiple classes to an item and they will cascade. class=action last Will apply both the action class and

Re: [css-d] Strange Text Centring

Rahul Gonsalves wrote: http://jaithirtha.net/rahul/Elastic%20John/Index.htm ... I was testing at 800*600, and then maximised to my screen (1152 * 864). The footer slipped to the right. I was a bit curious, and have narrowed this down to occuring between 1096 and 1097 px (web-dev). This

Re: [css-d] Strange Text Centring

Rahul Gonsalves wrote: http://jaithirtha.net/rahul/Elastic%20John/Index.htm Correction: #wrapper { display: table; /* Opera, Mos-FF, Safari */ height: 0; /* 'hasLayout' for IE-win */ } ...no need to hack in the 'hasLayout' trigger for IE/win, as the other browsers will treat it as

[css-d] Paragraph layout issue... minimum height

Hello, I'm trying to layout a page using paragraphs and images floated to the right. If I don't set a height for the paragraph style, then the images will be somewhat staggered. If I set a height for the paragraphs, then any overflow is lost, since I don't want to use scroll or anything. And, I'd

Re: [css-d] Do classes cascade?

Lst Recv wrote: Do classes cascade? That is: style a.content { font-size: 120%; } /styke div class=content a href=urlurl/a /div I think what you are looking for is this. style div.content a { font-size: 120%; } /style div class=content a href=urlurl/a /div By specifying a.content, you

[css-d] Float box overlaps/overlapped by p background/border

I've got a news-type box that's floated right. If the box gets big enough, it overlaps (in Firefox) a background-color and border that I've got on a paragraph. In IE, it gets covered up by the border/background-color. The text flows around the box just fine. I read somewhere that it's normal

[css-d] Do classes cascade?

Do classes cascade? That is: style a.content { font-size: 120%; } /styke div class=content a href=urlurl/a /div Is that correct? If not, what is the preferred way of doing it? (Also, BTW, what is what I sometimes see font-size: 80%/130% - what is the / ? ) Please cc me on all responses

[css-d] float interrupting background images

I've got a site: http://dev.ewriteonline.com which is behaving badly on a number of platforms: for starters - in IE 6.0 both the yellow and green bars below the logo wont slide under the logo itself. Any pointers? For extra credit look at it in Firefox or on any mac browser ... why they

Re: [css-d] Do classes cascade?

I would think it should be either: style #content {} #content a { font-size:120%; } /style div class=content a href=urlurl/a /div OR style a.content { font-size:120%; } /style a href=url class=contenturl/a Lst Recv wrote: Do classes cascade? That is: style a.content { font-size: 120%; }

Re: [css-d] first post - floating a list beside images

Hi Chris, At 11:50 AM 7/18/2005, you wrote: I forgot to mention, that the ul / li structur is generated by a cms system (mambo CMS). So I can't apply different ids or classes to different lis unless I make some changes of some sourcecode (which i can't). all I have is a simple list... So I

[css-d] centering graphical buttons

I've never been able to figure out how to center fancier graphical form buttons. I typically implement them like this: a class=Btn href=# onclick=doSomething();span class=CtrButton Label/spanspan class=Right/span It's not the prettiest HTML ever, but it allows me to do variable- sized

RE: [css-d] IE border problems with dir=rtl

Ryan Becker schrieb: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd; html dir=rtl head titleUnderline Test/title style .underlinedText { display: inline; position: relative; top:

[css-d] fixed height element adds itself to 100% height...

Has anyone heard of or noticed this issue? When you give a container element a height value (in order to give an element within that container a 100% height) and you place two elements within that container, one that has a fixed height and one that has a height of 100%, the fixed height

[css-d] Strange Text Centring

Hi all: http://jaithirtha.net/rahul/Elastic%20John/Index.htm I'm having a bit of a strange (to me) problem. I have a footer division, with some text in it (contact info). Now, looking at it in Firefox, it looks fine (as fine as pre-alpha stages look), but there is a strange thing happening

Re: [css-d] Do classes cascade?

No, styles, in general, cascade, but class declarations don't. What you're looking for is probably something like div.content a { /* style for any anchor descendent of a div with a class of content */ } - Justin Makeig On Jul 18, 2005, at 1:11 PM, Lst Recv wrote: Do classes

Re: [css-d] IE border problems with dir=rtl

Ryan Becker schrieb: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd; html dir=rtl head titleUnderline Test/title style .underlinedText { display: inline; position: relative; top: 20px;

Re: [css-d] Do classes cascade?

At 01:11 PM 7/18/2005, Lst Recv wrote: Do classes cascade? Lst, I believe you really need to read this document: CSS 2.1 Specification http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/ It's very interesting and can be read inside of a day. It will answer most of your questions at this early stage of your

RE: [css-d] IE border problems with dir=rtl

I've been considering what would be a better test. Consider this page: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd; html dir=rtl head titleUnderline Test/title style .underlinedText { border-bottom: 1px solid #FF;

Re: [css-d] Paragraph layout issue... minimum height

On 7/18/05, Geoffrey Alan Colbath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: characters... so I am wondering if there's a way to set a minimum height for a paragraph, with the option for the height to expand to accomodate additional content? There is a 'min-height' attribute you can use, but I do not believe it

Re: [css-d] fixed height element adds itself to 100% height...

Neal, You may want to do a demo page so we can see the problem and look at your markup. Here is a quick demo I did, but I can't duplicate the problem you describe. http://www.jimdavis.org/test/box_test.htm Jim On 7/18/05, Neal Wollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone heard of or noticed

Re: [css-d] IE border problems with dir=rtl

Another idea is to drop that border-underlining .underlinedText { display: inline; position: relative; top: 20px; right: 20px; color: red; text-decoration: underline; } em {font-style:normal; color: black;} div class=underlinedTextemThis should have a red underline./em/div Its a bit

RE: [css-d] IE border problems with dir=rtl

A good idea. It's the ability to make the underline a different color that's most important. Being able to adjust the width is nice, but simpler is better. Good thought - I'll probably settle for that. Thanks! Ryan -Original Message- From: Ingo Chao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

[css-d] CSS alternative for ALIGN attribute in LEGEND tag?

Olá a todos, Is there any CSS alternative to the deprecated ALIGN attribute of LEGEND? This attribute made possible the relative positioning of a LEGEND in a FIELDSET on visual browsers. Possible values were top, bottom, left, and right. Obrigado, Roberto Gorjão

Re: [css-d] Paragraph layout issue... minimum height

On 7/19/05, Geoffrey Alan Colbath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying to layout a page using paragraphs and images floated to the right. If I don't set a height for the paragraph style, then the images will be somewhat staggered. If I set a height for the paragraphs, then any

Re: [css-d] Do classes cascade?

At 4:54 PM -0500 7/18/05, Akins, Chris wrote: In the example of font-size: 80%/130% the first number is the actual size of the text. The second number is the line height. I believe this is correct. Someone correct me if I'm incorrect. It's incorrect because 'font-size' doesn't accept

[css-d] couple of dropcap issues (mostly IE)

Hello, on my home page (http://www.inspired-evolution.com), I have created a fancy dropcap for the I in inspired and noticed a couple of issues. 1) The I in inspired isn't centered in the blue background like I want it to be. 2) In IE the rest of the word (nspired) looks indented to the right,

[css-d] Positioning to top, pushing down to bottom

I want to put the navbar at the *end* of the html, and use CSSP to dispkay it at the top. Easy enough. But, is there anyway to have it automatically push down the content that would have been on the top otherwise? Right now, they are somewhat overlapping. Thanks

[css-d] Floating tables

Table criticisms aside, is it possible to “float” a short narrow table into the top-right corner of a longer wider table, such that shortnarrow looks like a column of longwide? My aim is to have the text in longwide flow around the bottom of shortnarrow when the latter finishes. -- We take

Re: [css-d] fixed height element adds itself to 100% height...

Neal Wollenberg wrote: Has anyone heard of or noticed this issue? When you give a container element a height value (in order to give an element within that container a 100% height) and you place two elements within that container, one that has a fixed height and one that has a height of

Re: [css-d] Floating tables

Bill Hely wrote: Table criticisms aside, is it possible to “float” a short narrow table into the top-right corner of a longer wider table, such that shortnarrow looks like a column of longwide? seems to me you would use a {vertical-align:top;horizontal-align:right} rather that a float. i

[css-d] absolute position

how come position: absolute; left: 200px is a different place in IE than in firefox? and how do you do workarounds these days if IE reads the box-model- hack-parsing-error-trick-characters correctly now? __ css-discuss

Re: [css-d] Positioning to top, pushing down to bottom

Lst Recv wrote: I want to put the navbar at the *end* of the html, and use CSSP to dispkay it at the top. Easy enough. But, is there anyway to have it automatically push down the content that would have been on the top otherwise? Right now, they are somewhat overlapping. Thanks Do you

Re: [css-d] absolute position

travis laduke wrote: how come position: absolute; left: 200px is a different place in IE than in firefox? and how do you do workarounds these days if IE reads the box-model- hack-parsing-error-trick-characters correctly now?

Re: [css-d] IE problems

Schalk Neethling wrote: Greetings All I wonder how many posts has had that subject :) Anyway, I have a problem occurring in IE Win. Please have a look at the following page: http://www.volume4.com/caradvisory/index.html As you will see in IE the right side nav bar is offset slightly from

Re: [css-d] Positioning to top, pushing down to bottom

I couldn't get it to work with margin either. Goal: NAVBAR Other content entirely beneath it - no overlap Simplified code: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd; html lang=en head meta http-equiv=Content-Type

Re: [css-d] couple of dropcap issues (mostly IE)

Bruce Gilbert wrote: Hello, on my home page (http://www.inspired-evolution.com), I have created a fancy dropcap for the I in inspired and noticed a couple of issues. http:www.inspired-evolution.com CSS http://www.inspired-evolution.com/Gilbert.css Dunno, but would guess if you really mean

[css-d] pseudo-class, pseudo-element, pseudo-CSS

I've compiled some basic information about inconsistencies and bugs regarding pseudo-elements and pseudo-classes in IE6/Win: http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/pseudocss.html it's a work in progress, though. If you have weired experiences related to :hover, :first-letter Co. not listed in this